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  • No on the Levy Posters

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    No on the Levy Posters

  • Full Disclosure… NOT

    Our response to the sd244.org mailing STATE OF IDAHO – 2024 LEGISLATIVE SESSIONGENERAL FUND BUDGET UPDATE SOME FACTS: PLEASE CONSIDER the following: 64% of Idaho’s Taxpayer Dollars goes to Public Education! However, our district, and many others, have been forced… Continue reading

    Full Disclosure… NOT

  • Cindy Carlson on School Funding

    School District Facilities Funding The following is the most current estimate of how HB292 from 2023 and HB521 from 2024 affect the funding of School District Facilities Many of you have been asking for this information. Although, estimates are available… Continue reading

    Cindy Carlson on School Funding

  • Is Money really the problem?

    Here’s an interesting set of stats we learned about comparing Idaho with Utah. From this source, we find that Public Spending per k-12 student is: From this source, we find that the SAT Scores are: Continue reading

    Is Money really the problem?

  • What CAN be done?

    In the Grangeville area we are blessed with a few private and religious schools that are flourishing even as the public school system is in serious trouble. Those that have money, like doctors, politicians, financiers, tradesmen, and businessmen are sending… Continue reading

    What CAN be done?

  • Local Control

    The pro-levy proponents clearly imply that having a levy gives us more local control. How does getting a lein on your property give you any control whatsoever? Our local control is our local school board members that are popularly elected.… Continue reading

  • The Unfair Tax for a secular seed of self destruction

    MVSD244 Patrons,For years, I’ve given our community a number of constitutional and community minded reasons why I cannot support an UNFAIR property tax levy. More recently I’ve added the most profound reason, Government schools are ruining our society, the brainwashing… Continue reading

    The Unfair Tax for a secular seed of self destruction

  • The kind of people we are fighting

    Last time we were fighting the Levy we had issues with vandals tearing down signs. It was costly. It was painful. It was disgusting. I know of no instance where a pro-levy sign has been vandalized. This should give one… Continue reading

    The kind of people we are fighting

  • The Real Issue at Hand

    The Levy issue represents the tip of a brewing iceberg of conflict caused by deeply entrenched ideas that simply don’t work. Public Education is the process of gathering the resources of the whole to pay for a service to a… Continue reading

    The Real Issue at Hand

  • Will a failed Levy close the schools?

    Many signs being scattered throughout the county by the pro levy folks are intentionally misleading and used as just another scare tactic. Many schools in Idaho do not run levies and not one that I could find has ever been… Continue reading

    Will a failed Levy close the schools?